The deal – the financial terms of which remain a mystery – is important for both the connected industry and the Berlin start-up scene, which has long been holding out for a big exit....

The deal is reminiscent of Harman’s 2010 purchase of Aha Radio, whose in-car Aha platform is found these days in vehicles from Subaru, Honda and Acura. Aupeo, meanwhile, has partnerships with Mercedes, BMW, Mini and Pioneer for its platform, which covers news and weather, radio, podcasts and audiobooks, and also uses text-to-speech technology. As for Panasonic, that company is already involved in Chrysler’s Uconnect platform — as is Harman, albeit as developer of a hands-free communication system — and Chevrolet’s MyLink.

From authors to athletes, columnists to broadcasters, teams to networks, it seems everyone in sports is elbowing for a seat at the podcast table. And it’s not just the usual suspects that are breaking through. A recent listing of the 50 most popular sports podcasts on iTunes included six wrestling-related shows, including “The Jim Ross Report,” a show hosted by retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and one co-hosted by former MMA fighter Brendan Schaub..

Over the course of the last few days, Google teased a few updates to Android Auto, its platform for bringing its mobile operating system to the car. At its I/O developer conference, the company showed off what the next version of Android Auto will look like and how developers can start preparing th…

Broadcast radio’s share of global display advertising spend has dipped by 1.6 percentage points over the past decade, largely because of falling expenditure in the US where advertisers are investing more heavily in digital audio formats, a new WARC analysis indicates.

Radio will maintain its relevance and grow by being focused on consumers and delivering them the best product we can on as many devices as possible, but also providing great reasons to get them and keep them on the platforms where we have a better chance of winning.

Radio stations will only maintain their relevance and grow their businesses by using their amazing skills to build and deliver great audio and consumer products to their listeners.

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I think there are a number of things that radio as a platform and radio stations themselves need to do to secure a strong future for their businesses.

Every quarter, RAJAR — the UK’s audio measurement company — releases a little piece of research called MIDAS. It probably stands for something, I don’t know; but it’s a robust piece of research that measures all kinds of interesting things.

Like Google’s messaging focus, YouTube’s efforts to spin out successful streaming and music products has felt confusing and haphazard. Now the company is simplifying and consolidating that play by decoupling the music and film components with the launch of a new service. YouTube Music i…

A coalition of public media organizations have purchased the podcasting app Pocket Casts, part of a plan to exercise more control over the distribution of their content and give them an additional consumer-facing channel alongside major players such as Spotify and Apple.

NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago and This American Life announced on Thursday the purchase of the podcast player, which is owned by Australian mobile app developer Shifty Jelly.

The podcasting platform integrates with automotive and smart home devices, including Android Auto, Google Home, and Amazon Echo, and offers nifty search smarts that use natural language processing (NLP). This allows users to search for content based on specific words within a podcast, so if you can’t remember who created a podcast or what it was called, you can still narrow down your options with a keyword search based on the topic.

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